Đurović, Jelena(Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2015)

This paper presents a historical overview of the processes and changes
experienced by libraries of all types in Montenegro during the
past twenty-five years, as well as their current state. Major aspects of
library work ...

Strićević, Ivanka; Pehar, Franjo(Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2015)

In the last two decades, Croatian libraries have been influenced by
four key factors: 1) becoming an independent state with new sociopolitical
and economic systems in the 1990s, during which time
the state transformed ...

Motulskij, Roman Stepanovič(Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2015)

This paper highlights the history of libraries in Belarus, including
the library network development and its current structure. The paper
uses data analyses of official state statistics, normative and unpublished
legal ...

Stasselová, Silvia(Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2015)

Slovakia is a young and progressive country that has undergone great
changes since its establishment as a sovereign state. This paper describes
the transformation of the Slovak library system after 1989 in
the context ...

Schnuer, Susan; Ford, Barbara J.; Barber, Peggy(Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2015)

From 2009 to 2012, the Mortenson Center for International Library
Programs (MC) at the University of Illinois Library implemented
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Libraries (GL) Leaders
and Innovators Training ...

Olluri, Adil(Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2015)

Abstract
This paper presents an overview of the development of Kosovan
libraries and literature between the years 1990 to 1999, one of the
most difficult decades in the county’s history. During this time, both
Kosovo’s ...

Krastev, Dincho; Kazanski, Nikola(Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2015)

Traditionally libraries, including and perhaps especially Bulgarian
ones, are very conservative institutions. Libraries indeed have many
reasons to be conservative, but this does not mean that they have
been inactive. ...

Kasapović, Indira(Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2015)

This paper presents the complex situation that libraries in Bosnia
and Herzegovina face and suggests possible avenues for improvement.
After brief coverage of the history of libraries in the country
from the Middle Ages ...

Domi, Etleva(Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2015)

This paper provides an overview of the Albanian library network
within the changing context of the past twenty-two years. The first
part traces the development of the library system in Albania by giving
a brief review ...

Campbell, Amy(Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2015)

A partnership between Ukraine’s National University of Kyiv Mohyla-
Academy and Emporia State University in the United States enabled
the author to visit Ukraine in 2011 to tour libraries and talk with
librarians. ...

Anghelescu, Hermina G.B.; Bejan, Eugenia(Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2015)

The transition from a communist to a democratic society has affected
the entire social map of Moldova, including the library network.
For over two and a half decades, Moldovan libraries have undergone
major changes and ...

Anghelescu, Hermina G.B.; Chiaburu, Elena(Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2015)

This paper takes a fresh look at the transformative events that marked
the development of the library scene at the twenty-fifth anniversary
of regime change in Romania. It examines their significance for the
country’s ...

Ambrožič, Melita; Zumer, Maja(Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2015)

This paper provides a brief introduction to the Republic of Slovenia
and presents a history of its library system. Although the first “public”
library opened in 1569 and the first “public” research library in 1701,
the ...